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What Made Apollo a Success? Paperback – February 5, 2014

3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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(Introduction by G. M. Low) On July 20, 1969, man first set foot on another planet. This "giant leap for man­kind'' represented one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time. This article and the others in this document describe and discuss some of the varied tasks behind this achievement. We will limit ourselves to those tasks that were the direct responsibility of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center: spacecraft development, mission design and mission planning, flight crew operations, and flight operations. We will describe spacecraft design principles, the all-important spacecraft test activities, and the discipline that evolved in the control of spacecraft changes and the closeout of spacecraft anomalies; and we will discuss how we determined the best series of flights to lead to a lunar landing at the earliest possible time, how these flights were planned in detail, the techniques used in establishing flight procedures and carrying out flight operations, and, finally, crew training and simulation activities-the activities that led to a perfect flight execution by the astronauts. In short, we will describe three of the basic ingredients of the success of Apollo: spacecraft hardware that is most reliable, flight missions that are extremely well planned and executed, and flight crews that are superbly trained and skilled. (We will not discuss two equally important aspects of Apollo -the launch vehicles and launch operations. These elements, the responsibility of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the NASA Kennedy Space Center, go beyond the scope of this series of articles.)
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    February 5, 2014
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    1495444473
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 5, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 84 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1495444473
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1495444470
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.17 x 11.02 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jeffrey
3.0 out of 5 stars I am in sales. Why is this not required reading for NASA ENGINEERS?
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024
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As other's have mentioned, this has horrible print quality. I AM IN SALES!. Is this not something current enginerers read? Dear god, why not? We are going to send people into space and the NASA people haven't read this? HOW! This was presented to NASA during that Smarter Every Day video. Dear NASA, ELON and BEZOS will kill our astronuats, please keep them safe. 4/6/2024 - If any astronuat dies, I blame you.
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Ryan Lenkersdorfer
2.0 out of 5 stars Great Content, Terrible Print Quality
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023
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It's nice to have this document in a physical form but it is really for the novelty. The content is fantastic and freely available online directly from NASA.

The binding and cover a good but the scan\print quality is absolutely terrible. All of the figures are blurry and the images are completely blown out. Most of the pages are misaligned and the text is far from sharp. This is an old document that has been turned into this version but instead of using OCR and high-res scans of an original to rebuild the document electronically and then printing the result, this really looks like somethone just threw it in a Xerox and hit the copy button with the lowest settings.

On the last page of the copy I received is a note that it was made on 12/4/2023 in Orlando, FL; the day before it was delivered to me so it is a clearly a print to order item. I just wish they put a little more effort into it to justify the cost of an otherwise free document.
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Nikita Lozhnikov
3.0 out of 5 stars Text content is great, but all the tables, images, charts are of awful quality.
Reviewed in the Netherlands on April 16, 2024
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